Mothers´ day!

Hola a todos!

This has been a pretty good week. I´m learning more, I´m growing and I´m working.

My spirits are a lot better after my dad reprimanded me in the Mothers´ day Skype call. They asked how office life was and I said it was pretty boring and that I felt like I wasn´t doing much, then my dad told me he wanted to tell me something. ¨I love being in the office!¨ He reprimanded me for being negative and now that I´ve decided to take a better attitude, I feel a lot better and I´m working on a couple goals and declaring who I am, and who I am becoming. I LOVE BEING IN THE OFFICE! I also love my family and my dad!

As far as our sector goes, we´ve visited a couple more times Jhonothan, our progressing investigator who works in our apartment building. We also had a good visit with Mari and Nicolas, she´s a recent convert and they´re doing well.

A couple pictures, we saw this huge dog coming back from President´s house after a meeting. We called it Max. We made a mattress fort in the office with the 8 mattresses that we had to buy to replace some old ones. And Elder Westbrook and Elder Fawcett cooked Sloppy Joes for our pension´s birthday.

We had correlation like normal, but we took a picture too. Hermana Arana, Hermana Barrientos, Yo, Elder Chango and Elder Boelter in this picture that our ward mission leader took of us. Later that night, Friday, we had a ward activity that we organized, we didn´t do much to organize it, but once people showed up and we started it ended up being the best ward activity I´ve seen here in Peru, so that was cool. We taught the Restoration-

RMs will know that, but basically we talked about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and we´re His kids. The Gospel (teachings of Christ and His prophets) blesses families. That God calls prophets in each day and age. That Christ came and in His ministry He established His church and had four key pillars, Prophets, Apostles, Priesthood and Revelation. We explained this by putting those words on big soda bottles and putting a box that said ¨The Church of Jesus Christ¨ on top. The church fell when the wicked people killed the Savior (prophet) and His Apostles. But Joseph Smith was an instrument in God´s hands and restored the Church of Jesus Christ to the Earth through Christ´s direction. And he also translated the Book of Mormon and now we can know this today through sincere prayer and wanting to know.

I had a really neat spiritual experience Saturday morning, I finished reading El Libro de Mormon. (The Book of Mormon in Spanish) and as I finished reading the last of Moroni, no fireworks exploded or anything significant physically. But as I knelt down to pray after reading, I felt yet again as I asked, that this book, the Book of Mormon, El Libro de Mormon whatever language you want, it´s true. I´ve felt the Spirit witness to me time and time again.

So I invite you, just as Moroni invites all of us. Go and read it, then think of all the wondrous works that God has done for us, meditate on all of the things God did for that people and our people. Then pray. Pray sincerely and with true intent. Pray to know if it is true, pray to know if it is not true, pray to know how God wants you to use this book in YOUR life. And if you do so with real intent, really meaning to act on your answer, you will receive.

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Hurrah for Israel!

~Elder Fincher

P.S. I didn´t say anything about Mothers´ day, but HAPPY MOTHERS´ DAY to all the mothers out there. I hope it was great!